THE YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY, JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918

THE YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY, JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918

ADDRESSES OF AMERICAN MAGAZINES PUBLISHING SHORT STORIES

Note. This address list does not aim to be complete, but is based simply on the magazines which I have considered for this volume.

Adventure, Spring and Macdougal Streets, New York City. Ainslee’s Magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City. All-Story Weekly, 280 Broadway, New York City. American Magazine, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Argosy, 280 Broadway, New York City. Atlantic Monthly, 41 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Mass. Bellman, 118 South 6th Street, Minneapolis, Minn. Black Cat, Salem, Mass. Boston Evening Transcript, 324 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. Catholic World, 120 West 60th Street, New York City. Century Magazine, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Collier’s Weekly, 416 West 13th Street, New York City. Cosmopolitan Magazine, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Country Gentleman, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa. Delineator, Spring and Macdougal Streets, New York City. Detective Story Magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Everybody’s Magazine, Spring and Macdougal Streets, New York City. Forum, 118 East 28th Street, New York City. Good Housekeeping, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Harper’s Bazar, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Harper’s Magazine, Franklin Square, New York City. Hearst’s Magazine, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Illustrated Sunday Magazine, 193 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Independent, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Ladies’ Home Journal, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa. Liberator, 34 Union Square, East, New York City. Little Review, 24 West 16th Street, New York City. Live Stories, 35 West 39th Street, New York City. McCall’s Magazine 236 West 37th Street, New York City. McClure’s Magazine, 251 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Magnificat, Manchester, N. H. Metropolitan Magazine, 432 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Midland, Moorhead, Minn. Modern School, Stelton, N. J. Munsey’s Magazine, 280 Broadway, New York City. Outlook, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Pagan, 7 East 15th Street, New York City. Parisienne, Printing Crafts Building, 461 Eighth Avenue, New York City. Pictorial Review, 216 West 39th Street, New York City. Popular Magazine, 79th Seventh Avenue, New York City. Queen’s Work, 3200 Russell Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Reedy’s Mirror, Syndicate Trust Building, St. Louis, Mo. Saturday Evening Post, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa. Scribner’s Magazine, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Short Stories, Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. Smart Set, Printing Crafts Building, New York City. Snappy Stories, 35 West 39th Street, New York City. Southern Woman’s Magazine, American Building, Nashville, Tenn. Stratford Journal, 32 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass. Sunset Magazine, 460 Fourth Street, San Francisco, Cal. Today’s Housewife, 461 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Touchstone, 118 East 30th Street, New York City. University Magazine, Montreal, P. Q., Canada. Woman’s Home Companion, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Woman’s World, 107 So. Clinton Street, Chicago, Ill. Youth’s Companion, 881 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass.

THE BIOGRAPHICAL ROLL OF HONOR OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918

Note. Only stories by American authors are listed. The best sixty stories are indicated by an asterisk before the title of the story. The index figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 prefixed to the name of the author indicate that his work has been included in the Rolls of Honor for 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917 respectively. The list excludes reprints.

ABDULLAH, ACHMED. Born at Kabul, Afghanistan, May 12, 1881, of Arab and Tartar stock. Educated in India, England, France, and Germany. Bachelor of Letters, Sorbonne, Paris. Served in British-Indian and Ottoman armies. Writer of short stories, novels, and plays. Expert linguist. Chief interests, outside his profession, music, international politics, society. First story published, “The Strength of the Little Thin Thread,” Collier’s Weekly, Oct. 5, 1912. Author of “The Red Stain,” 1915; “Bucking the Tiger,” 1917; “The Blue-Eyed Manchu,” 1917; “The Last Manchu,” 1918; “The Trail of the Beast,” 1918; “The Web,” 1919. Lives in New York City.

Cobbler’s Wax.

Light.

*Simple Act of Piety.

Two-Handed Sword.

(34) ANDERSON, SHERWOOD (for biography, see 1917).

*Man of Ideas.

Senility.

(34) ANDREWS, MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN (for biography, see 1917).

Ditch.

(34) BABCOCK, EDWINA STANTON (for biography, see 1917).

*Cruelties.

*“Goddess Size.”

BEEDE, RALPH G. Born in Redfield, S. D., June 3, 1895. Educated in public schools, Rolla, N. D., and Shattuck Military School, Faribault, Minn. Three years at University of North Dakota. Managed newspapers in Winnebago, Neb., and Makoti, N. D. Has taught school and was superintendent of schools at Goodrich, N. D., for two years. Chief interests, writing and music. First story published, “Cera,” Harper’s Magazine, May, 1918.

Cera

(4) BEER, THOMAS (for biography, see 1917).

Beneficiary.

“BRANGWYN, JOHN.” First story published, “Bell-Tower of P’an-Ku.” His first book will be published soon. He lives in Washington, D. C.

*Bell-Tower of P’an-Ku.

BROWN, HEARTY EARL. Born 1886, Schoolcraft, Mich. Degrees A.B. and M.A. from University of Michigan. Member of the English Faculty, University of Kansas. First published story, “The Marrying Time,” Atlantic Monthly, October, 1918. Lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Marrying Time.

(23) BROWN, KATHARINE HOLLAND. Born in Alton, Ill. Educated in Washington, D. C., and at University of Michigan. Profession, writer of fiction. Chief interest, writing. First published stories: “2620 Oxford Place,” Lippincott’s Magazine, August, 1900, “The Mathematics Man,” Woman’s Home Companion, August, 1900. Books published: “Diane,” 1904; “Dawn,” 1907; “The Messenger,” 1910; “White Roses,” 1910; “Philippa at Halcyon,” 1910; “Uncertain Irene,” 1911; “The Hallowell Partnership,” 1912; “Wages of Honor,” 1917. Lives at Long Beach, Cal.

*Buster.

BROWNELL, AGNES MARY. Born at Concordia, Kans. Educated in Concordia public and high schools, supplemented by four years in a western school of music. Music teacher. Chief interests, music, an ineradicable habit of prowling around libraries, and out-of-door jaunts. First published story, “The Fifer,” Youth’s Companion, June 28, 1917. Lives at Concordia, Kans.

Sanctuary.

(14) BURT, MAXWELL STRUTHERS. (for biography, see 1917).

Wings of the Morning.

BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER. Born at Muscatine, Iowa, Dec. 5, 1869. One year in Muscatine high school. Bill clerk, bookkeeper, salesman, editor, and now acting Cashier of Flushing National Bank, of which he is Vice-President. Chief interest, letting himself know he is alive. First published story, “Shorty and Frank’s Adventure,” in a deceased publication whose name is forgotten. Author of “Pigs is Pigs,” 1906; “French Decorative Styles,” 1906; “The Incubator Baby,” 1906; “Mr. Perkins of Portland,” 1906; “The Great American Pie Co.,” 1907; “Confessions of a Daddy,” 1907; “Kilo,” 1907; “The Cheerful Smugglers,” 1908; “That Pup,” 1908; “The Thin Santa Claus,” 1909; “Mike Flannery on Duty and Off,” 1909; “Water Goats and Other Troubles,” 1910; “Adventures of a Suburbanite,” 1911; “The Jack Knife Man,” 1913; “Red Head and Whistle Breeches,” 1916; “Dominie Dean,” 1917; and “Philo Gubb,” 1918. Lives in Flushing, N. Y.

*Sorry Tale of Hennery K. Lunk.

(2) BUTLER, KATHARINE. Born in Baltimore, Md., Oct 2, 1890, of New England parentage. Has lived in Salem, Mass., and the nearby inland countryside of Essex County since 1896. Education desultory. First published story, “In No Strange Land,” Atlantic Monthly, March, 1915. Lives in Danvers, Mass.

*Black Pearl.

CABELL, JAMES BRANCH. Born in Richmond, Va., April 14, 1879. Educated at McGuire’s School in Richmond, and graduated from College of William and Mary, 1898. Professions in order: school teacher, proof reader, newspaper reporter, and coal miner: at present, genealogist and writer. First published stories: “Love Letters of Falstaff,” Harper’s Monthly, March, 1902; and “As Played Before His Highness” (republished as “The Ducal Audience”), Smart Set, 1902. Author of the following volumes: (novels) “The Eagle’s Shadow,” 1904; “The Cords of Vanity,” 1909; “The Soul of Melicent,” 1913; “The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck,” 1915; “The Cream of the Jest,” 1917; (tales) “The Line of Love,” 1905; “Gallantry,” 1907; “Chivalry,” 1909; “The Certain Hour,” 1916; (essays) “Beyond Life,” 1918; (verse) “From the Hidden Way,” 1916; (genealogy) “Branchiana,” 1906; “Branch of Abingdon,” 1911; “The Majors and Their Marriages,” 1915. Lives at Dumbarton Grange, Dumbarton, Va.

*Some Ladies and Jurgen.

(23) CANFIELD, DOROTHY (MRS. JOHN R. FISHER). Born at Lawrence, Kans., Feb. 17, 1879. Graduate of Ohio State University and Columbia University. Secretary Horace Mann School, 1902-05. Married, 1907. Has traveled widely in Europe. Now assisting Miss Winifred Holt in War Relief Work at Paris. Author of “Corneille and Racine in England,” 1904; (with G. R. Carpenter) “English Rhetoric and Composition,” 1906; “What Shall We Do Now?” 1906; “Gunhild,” 1907; “The Squirrel-Cage,” 1912; “The Montessori Mother,” 1913; “Mothers and Children,” 1914; “Hillsboro People,” 1915; “The Bent Twig,” 1915; “The Real Motive,” 1916; (with Sarah Cleghorn) “Fellow Captains,” 1916; “Understood Betsy,” 1917; “Home Fires In France,” 1918. Lives at Arlington, Vt.

Little Kansas Leaven.

On the Edge.

Pharmacienne.

CARVER, GEORGE.

In a Moment of Time.

(234) COBB, IRVIN S. (for biography, see 1917).

*Gallowsmith.

(4) CRABBE, BERTHA HELEN (for biography, see 1917).

Wild-Wing.

DICKINSON, ROY. Born at Newark, N. J., March 14, 1888. Educated at Newark Academy and Princeton University, graduating in 1909. Profession, advertising and manufacturing. Five years with Cosmopolitan Magazine. Chief interests, labor psychology and the other fellow’s viewpoint. First story published, “Playing Hookey,” Delineator, November, 1916. Now Captain in the Ordnance Department at Washington. Engaged in work for stimulating industry in ordnance plants.

Some of Our Folks, and War.

(4) DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL. (for biography, see 1917).

*Open Window.

(134) DWIGHT, H. G. (for biography, see 1917) and TAYLOR, JOHN.

*Emerald of Tamerlane.

“ELDERLY SPINSTER” (MARGARET WILSON). Born in Iowa, Jan. 16, 1882. Graduated from University of Chicago, 1904. Lived in India for the most part, 1904 to 1916. Since then she has been resting, gardening, and farming. Chief interest, the Americanization of American children through the school in which she is teaching. First published story, “Taffeta Trousers,” Atlantic Monthly, December, 1917.

God’s Little Joke.

ELLERBE, ALMA ESTABROOK, and ELLERBE, PAUL LEE. Mrs. Ellerbe was born in Greenfield, Ind., and educated at Oxford College, Ohio. Chief interests, people, writing, and automobiling. First published magazine story, “The Requital,” Harper’s Magazine, September, 1903. Author of “The Rule of Three.” Mr. Ellerbe was born in Montgomery, Ala. Had one year in which he scrupulously refrained from study at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Now Assistant Chief, Americanization section, Council of National Defense. Chief interests: English poetry, music, writing, automobiling. First published story, “The Vacant Forty,” Lippincott’s Magazine, March, 1913. Has been chief naturalization examiner for the U. S. Department of Labor at Denver. Chautauqua lecturer. Mr. and Mrs. Ellerbe plan to do all their writing in collaboration, preferably in a cabin in the Colorado Rockies.

Citizen Paper.

FISHER, DOROTHY CANFIELD.

See CANFIELD, DOROTHY.

FREEDLEY, MARY MITCHELL. Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 14, 1894. Granddaughter of S. Weir Mitchell. Previous to her marriage she was much interested in the betterment of economic conditions relating to woman’s labor, and at one time organized and managed The Philadelphia Trades School for Girls. She is the wife of an actor, Vinton Freedley, and her interests are mainly of the stage and things theatrical. She has never done any previous writing and is at present chiefly concerned with the business of “being a woman” and the wife of a soldier.

*Blind Vision.

(1234) FREEMAN, MARY E. WILKINS. (for biography, see 1917).

Jade Bracelet

(4) GEER, CORNELIA THROOP. Born in New York City, Feb. 15, 1894. Educated at Brearley School, New York. Graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, 1917. Instructor in English, Bryn Mawr College, 1918. Interested in Woman’s Land Army of America, and worked as farm hand at its Bedford Unit in summers of 1917 and 1918. First published story, “Pearls Before Swine,” Atlantic Monthly, October, 1917. Lives in New York City.

*Irish of It.

GEROULD, GORDON HALL. Born at Goffstown, N. H., Oct. 4, 1877. Graduate of Dartmouth College and Oxford University. Studied also in Paris. On Faculty of Bryn Mawr College, 1901 to 1905, and since that time successively Assistant Professor and Professor of English at Princeton University. Captain Ordnance Department, U. S. A., 1918. Married Katharine Fullerton, 1910. First story published, “Justification,” Scribner’s Magazine, October, 1911. Publications largely the result of studies in mediæval literature, folk lore, and hagiography, appearing in learned journals here and abroad. Books: “Sir Guy of Warwick,” 1905, “Selected Essays of Henry Fielding,” 1905; “The Grateful Dead,” 1908; “Saints’ Lives,” 1916; “Peter Sanders, Retired,” 1917. Lives in Princeton, N. J.

*Imagination.

(1234) GEROULD, KATHARINE FULLERTON. (for biography, see 1917).

*Marchpane.

GILBERT, GEORGE. Born in Binghamton, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1874. Educated in public schools. Became newsboy, messenger, “rambler,” telegrapher, lineman, and press operator before reaching eighteen. Served as editor-in-chief of several important inland newspapers. Confidential clerk to Republican whip, J. W. Dwight, in Congressional sessions 1909-10. An editor again in Binghamton. First published story, “The Encouragement of Reuben,” Pets and Animals, July and August, 1900. Chief interests: Mrs. Gilbert, their son, flower garden, fishing, playing typewriter sonatas. Lives in Binghamton, N. Y.

Ashes of Roses.

*In Maulmain Fever-Ward.

(4) GLASPELL, SUSAN. (for biography, see 1917).

*“Beloved Husband.”

*“Poor Ed.”

GOODMAN, HENRY. Born in Roumania of Jewish parents, May 30, 1893. Came to the United States in 1900. Graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1915. Subsequently journalist on the New York Tribune and New York World. First story published, “Billy’s Mother,” Pearson’s Magazine, June, 1917. Chief interest, writing poetry and short stories. Lives in New York City.

Conquered.

(134) GORDON, ARMISTEAD C. (for biography, see 1917).

*Sinjinn, Surviving.

HALDEMAN-JULIUS, EMANUEL. See Julius, Emanuel Haldeman-.

HALL, MAY EMERY. Born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 16, 1874. Educated at high and normal schools in Providence, supplemented by special University courses. Taught for five years in Providence public schools. Chief interests, the World War, study and travel. Author of “Dutch Days,” 1914, “Roger Williams,” 1917. Writer of magazine articles. Lives at Douglaston, L. I., N. Y.

Whiteford’s Masterpiece.

(3) HAWES, CHARLES BOARDMAN.

*Even So.

(2) HECHT, BEN. Born in New York City, Feb. 28, 1896. But left for the Middle West as soon as he learned to walk. Educated in public schools, Racine, Wis. Has always wanted to be an anthropologist. First published story, “Life,” Little Review, November, 1915. Lives in Chicago.

*Decay.

(4) HEMENWAY, HETTY. (for biography, see 1917).

*Their War.

“HENRY, ETTA.” Pseudonym of a woman student at Columbia University, who has published several excellent short stories. Lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Kaddish.

HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH. Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1880. Educated at a Quaker school in Philadelphia and at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His first magazine contribution was a set of prose impressions of Atlantic City in The Forum, September, 1913. Author of “The Lay Anthony,” 1914; “Mountain Blood,” 1915; “The Three Black Pennys,” 1917; “Gold and Iron,” 1918; “Java Head,” 1919. Lives in West Chester, Pa.

Black Key.

HOUGH, EMERSON. Born at Newton, Ia., June 28, 1857. High school education at Newton, and graduated from State University of Iowa, 1880. Practised law in New Mexico in 1882. Came to Chicago in 1889 and had charge of the Western office of Forest and Stream, 1889 to 1902. Fond of amateur sport. “I have never seen a game of professional baseball and don’t intend to. I care little for the movies, and detest the comic supplements of the Sunday newspapers. I read moderately and like historical fiction of the old type. I don’t care so much for jig-time and jazz-time.” First published story, “Far from the Crowd,” Forest and Stream, about 1881. “My father was a great sportsman, a great mathematician, a great Christian. I myself have always been a sportsman, but as to mathematics and Christianity I do not say so much.” Author of “The Singing Mouse Stories,” 1895; “The Story of the Cowboy,” 1897; “The Girl at the Half-way House,” 1900; “The Mississippi Bubble,” 1902; “The Way to the West,” 1903; “The Law of the Land,” 1904; “Heart’s Desire,” 1905; “The King of Gee Whiz,” 1906; “The Story of the Outlaw,” 1906; “The Way of a Man,” 1907; “Fifty-four Forty or Fight,” 1909; “The Sowing,” 1909; “The Young Alaskans,” 1910; “The Purchase Price,” 1911; “Young Alaskans on the Trail,” 1911; “John Rawn,” 1912; “The Lady and the Pirate,” 1913; “Young Alaskans in the Rockies,” 1913; “The Magnificent Adventure,” 1915; “The Man Next Door,” 1916; “The Broken Gate,” 1917; “Young Alaskans in the Far North,” 1918; “The Way Out,” 1918. President of the Society of Midland Authors. Lives in Chicago.

Clan Gordon.

(2) HUGHES, RUPERT. Born in Lancaster, Mo., Jan. 31, 1872. Educated at public schools, Lancaster, Mo., and Keokuk, Ia. Graduate of Western Reserve University, 1892, M.A. (Yale), 1899. Chief interests: literature, military work, music, and history. Married, 1908. Assistant editor Godey’s Magazine, Current Literature, and The Criterion before 1901. With Encyclopedia Britannica, 1902 to 1905. Captain U. S. A. on Mexican border service, 1916. Assistant to Adjutant-General, New York, 1917. Now Major in the U. S. A., stationed at Washington, D. C. First short story published, probably “The Man Who Could Stop His Heart,” The Adelbert, 1889. Books: “The Lake Rim Athletic Club,” 1898; “The Dozen from Lake Rim,” 1899; “American Composers,” 1900; “Gyges’ Ring,” 1901; “The Whirlwind,” 1902; “The Musical Guide,” 1903; “Love Affairs of Great Musicians,” 1903; “Songs by Thirty Americans,” 1904; “Zal,” 1905; “Colonel Crockett’s Coöperative Christmas,” 1906; “The Lake Rim Cruise,” 1910; “The Gift-Wife,” 1910; “Excuse Me,” 1911; “Miss 318,” 1911; “The Old Nest,” 1912; “The Amiable Crimes of Dirk Memling,” 1913; “The Lady Who Smoked Cigars,” 1913; “What Will People Say?” 1914; “The Music Lovers’ Cyclopedia,” 1914; “The Last Rose of Summer,” 1914; “Empty Pockets,” 1915; “Clipped Wings,” 1916; “The Thirteenth Commandment,” 1916; “In a Little Town,” 1917; “We Can’t Have Everything,” 1917; “Long Ever Ago,” 1918; “The Unpardonable Sin,” 1918; and many successful plays. Lives at Bedford Hills, N. Y.

*At the Back of God Speed.

HUMPHREY, GEORGE. Born at Boughton, Eng., July 17, 1889. Educated at Faversham School, England; Oxford and Leipsig Universities. Professor of ancient history at Saint Francis Xavier’s University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Now at Harvard University.

*Father’s Hand.

(234) HURST, FANNIE. (for biography, see 1917).

*Hers Not to Reason Why.

(2) JOHNSON, ARTHUR. Born in Boston, 1881. Graduate of Harvard University. Practised law since 1905. Chief interests: his profession, poetry, human nature, literature, art. Cares more for poetry than anything else. First story published, “Frankie and Jenny,” American Magazine, December, 1913. Now engaged in war work at Washington. Home, Cambridge, Mass.

His New Mortal Coil.

*Little Family.

*Visit of the Master.

(4) JONES, (E.) CLEMENT. (for biography, see 1917).

Mongrel.

JULIUS, EMANUEL HALDEMAN-. Born in Philadelphia, July 30, 1888. Self educated. “I left home as a kid and meandered around doing odd jobs—from being a bell boy in a school for polite young ladies to holding copy in a newspaper proof room. At twenty I became a reporter in New York. Later I did newspaper work in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles. I have edited and contributed to many labor and radical periodicals. I am managing editor of The New Appeal, which is the largest Socialist paper in the world. I am also director of a thoroughly capitalistic bank. Married in 1916. My chief interest right now is in getting the baby weaned.” Books: “The Color of Life,” 1916; “Somewhere in Europe,” 1917; “The Pest,” 1916. Lives in Girard, Kans.

Ring.

(3) KING, BASIL. Born in Charlottetown, P. E. I., Canada, Feb. 26, 1859. Educated at St. Peter’s School, Charlottetown, and King’s College, Windsor, N. S. Married, 1893. First story published, “The Eleventh Hour,” Atlantic Monthly, February, 1901. Books: “Griselda,” 1901; “Let Not Man Put Asunder,” 1902; “In the Garden of Charity,” 1903; “Steps of Honor,” 1905; “The Giant’s Strength,” 1906; “The Inner Shrine,” 1909; “The Wild Olive,” 1910; “The Street Called Straight,” 1912; “The Way Home,” 1913; “The Letter of the Contract,” 1914; “The Side of the Angels,” 1915; “The Lifted Veil,” 1917; “The High Heart,” 1917; “Abraham’s Bosom,” 1918. Lives in Boston.

Going West.

(4) KLINE, BURTON (for biography, see 1917).

*In the Open Code.

Singular Smile.

(4) KRYSTO, CHRISTINA (for biography, see 1917).

Mother of Stasya.

LEWIS, SINCLAIR. Born at Sauk Centre, Minn., Feb. 7, 1885. Educated at local schools, and graduate of Yale University. Newspaper reporter, assistant editor of Adventure and of Transatlantic Tales, editor of the Publishers’ Newspaper Syndicate, editor for George H. Doran Company and Frederick A. Stokes Company. First published story appeared in Pacific Monthly about 1905. Books: “Our Mr. Wrenn,” 1914; “The Trail of the Hawk,” 1915; “Job,” 1917; “The Innocents,” 1917. Lives at Port Washington, L. I., N. Y.

*Willow Walk.

LIEBERMAN, ELIAS. Born in Petrograd, Russia, Oct. 30, 1883. His parents emigrated with him to New York in 1891. Graduate of the College of the City of New York and New York University. Head of the English Department, Bushwick High School, Brooklyn, N. Y. Aside from life itself, magazine and newspaper work has always been his chief interest. First published story, “The Open Door,” Lippincott’s Magazine, September, 1913. Books: “The American Short Story,” 1912; “Paved Streets,” 1918. Lives in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tower of Confusion.

(3) MARKS, JEANNETTE. Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., 1875. Educated in Philadelphia, Dresden, and Wellesley College. Has travelled much in England and Wales. Fond of outdoor sports. Lecturer in English literature at Mt. Holyoke College. Member of the Committee on Habit Forming Drugs, American Public Health Association. First story published, “Mors Triumphans,” Outlook, May 20, 1905. Books: “The Cheerful Cricket,” 1907; “The English Pastoral Drama,” 1908; “Through Welsh Doorways,” 1909; “The End of a Song,” 1911; “A Girl’s School Days and After,” 1911; “Gallant Little Wales,” 1912; “Vacation Camping for Girls,” 1913; “Leviathan,” 1913; “Early English Hero Tales,” 1915; “Three Welsh Plays,” 1917. Winner of the Welsh National Theatre Prize, 1911. Lives at South Hadley, Mass.

*Haymakers.

*Old Lady Hudson.

(1) MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR. Born in New York City, Feb. 7, 1876. Graduated from Yale University, 1898. Books: “A Bunch of Grapes,” 1897; “Tom Beauling,” 1901; “Aladdin O’Brien,” 1902; “The Pagan’s Progress,” 1904; “Ellen and Mr. Man,” 1904; “The Footprint,” 1908; “Putting on the Screws,” 1909; “Spread Eagle,” 1910; “The Voice in the Rice,” 1910; “It,” 1912; “If You Touch Them They Vanish,” 1913; “The Penalty,” 1915; “When My Ship Comes In,” 1915; “The Goddess,” 1915; “The Seven Darlings,” 1915; “We Three,” 1916. Lives in New York City.

Unsent Letter.

MORTEN, MARJORY. Born in New York City. Educated in boarding schools, studied art in Paris and New York. Married Alexander Morten, 1909. First story published, “Sophy So-and-So,” Harper’s Magazine, August, 1915. Lives in New York City.

*Nettle and Foxglove.

MOSELEY, KATHARINE PRESCOTT. Born in Newburyport, Mass. Niece of Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Privately educated in Washington, D. C. Her father, a secretary of the I. C. Commission, spent over twenty years in his well-known work for the amelioration of railroad employees. His life was written by James Morgan. Miss Moseley’s life has been spent between Newburyport, Washington, and Boston, with trips abroad. Her chief interests are in music and gardening. Her home is at Deer Island, Newburyport, Mass.

*Story Vinton Heard at Mallorie.

(23) MYERS, WALTER L. Born in Lawrence, Kans., 1886, and reared in Iowa. Educated in Iowa public schools, State University of Iowa and Harvard University. In civil life Assistant Professor of English, University of Iowa. Now Second Lieutenant, Machine-Gun Training Centre, Camp Hancock, Ga. Chief interest, literature. First published story, “At the Crossing of the Trails,” Outing, 1909.

*Clouds.

(4) O’HIGGINS, HARVEY J. (for biography, see 1917).

*Owen Carey.

OPPENHEIM, JAMES. Born at St. Paul, Minn., May 24, 1882. Educated at Columbia University. Engaged in Social Settlement Work in New York, 1901 to 1903. Married, 1905. Teacher and Acting Superintendent, Hebrew Technical School for Girls, New York, 1905 to 1907. Editor, the Seven Arts Magazine, 1916-17. First story published in a school paper at age of thirteen. Books: “Doctor Rast,” 1909; “Monday Morning,” 1909; “Wild Oats,” 1910; “The Pioneers,” 1910; “Pay-Envelopes,” 1911; “The Nine-Tenths,” 1911; “The Olympian,” 1912; “Idle Wives,” 1914; “Songs for the New Age,” 1914; “The Beloved,” 1915; “War and Laughter,” 1916; “The Book of Self,” 1917; “Night,” 1918. Chief interests: running a Ford in the Litchfield Hills, taking care of chickens and gas engines, analytic psychology, talking with a friend, and writing poetry. Lives in New York City.

* Second-Rater.

(34) O’SULLIVAN, VINCENT. (for biography, see 1917).

Exhibit C-470.

PATTERSON, ELIZABETH. Born in Old Fort Seward, Jamestown, Dakota Territory, and spent her childhood in the picturesque life of isolated army posts. Daughter of Brigadier-General John S. Patterson, U. S. A. Educated at Cooperstown, N. Y., High School. Chief interests, traveling and out-of-door things. Expects to spend the coming winter in France in Red Cross service. First story published, “Sir Galahad,” All-Story Weekly, May 18, 1918. Lives in Cooperstown, N. Y.

Sir Galahad.

PATTERSON, NORMA. Born at Jasper, Texas, July 6, 1891. Educated at Beaumont High School and University of Nashville. Chief interest at present, turning out khaki-colored sweaters. Is an earnest student of places, words, people, and national issues. First published story, “The Roll of Honor,” Holland’s Magazine, 1915. Lives in San Antonio, Tex.

*Unto Each His Crown.

PAYNE, WILL. Born on a farm in Whiteside County, Ill., Jan. 9, 1855. Public-school education. Chief interests: writing and three grandchildren. “My first magazine story was published in the Century about 1891, but while I have a clear recollection of the indignation of the gentleman who unconsciously sat as a model for the leading character, I can’t, to save me, recover the title.” Member of National Institute of Arts and Letters. Engaged in journalism, 1890 to 1904. Books: “Jerry the Dreamer,” 1896; “The Money Captain,” 1898; “The Story of Eva,” 1901; “On Fortune’s Road,” 1902; “Mr. Salt,” 1903; “When Love Speaks,” 1906; “The Automatic Capitalist,” 1909; “The Losing-Game,” 1909. Lives in Paw Paw, Mich.

*His Escape.

PELLEY, WILLIAM DUDLEY. An accomplished writer of Vermont stories, proprietor of the St. Johnsbury Caledonian, and editorial free lance. Is now traveling in Siberia. Lives at Bennington, Vt.

*Toast to Forty-Five.

(4) PERRY, LAWRENCE. (for biography, see 1917).

*Poet.

PRATT, LUCY. Born at Deerfield, Mass., July 29, 1874. Educated at Deerfield Academy, private school at Nyack, N. Y., Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Teacher at Hampton Institute, 1897 to 1904. First story published, “The Entrance of Ezekiel.” Books: “Ezekiel,” 1909; “Ezekiel Expands,” 1914; “Felix Tells It,” 1915. Chief interests: human beings, music, literature, and changing seasons. Lives at Cambridge, Mass.

*Green Umbrellas.

(4) PULVER, MARY BRECHT. (for biography, see 1917).

*David and Jonathan.

PUTNAM, GEORGE PALMER. Born at Rye, N. Y., Sept. 7, 1887. Educated in public schools and King’s School, Stamford, Conn., Gunnery School, Washington, D. C., Harvard University, and University of California. Journalist, newspaper owner, author, Mayor of Bend, Ore., and Secretary to the Governor of Oregon. Enlisted in the army and went to the Mexican border. Has been in Department of Justice for eight months and is now in the Officers’ Training Camp, Louisville, Ky. Chief interests: outdoor world, travel, politics, and people. First published story, “The Sixth Man,” Ladies’ Home Journal, February, 1918. Books: “The Southland of North America,” 1913; “Outings in Oregon,” 1915; “The Smiting of the Rock,” 1917. Home: Bend, Ore.

*Sixth Man.

RANCK, EDWIN CARTY. Born in Lexington, Ky., 1879. Educated in private schools and Harvard. Newspaper man since 1898. On staffs of newspapers in Lexington and Covington, Ky. Dramatic editor, Cincinnati Post, 1906; St. Louis Star, 1907 and 1908; Brooklyn Eagle, 1916 to 1918. Has been in France as war correspondent. Now press representative and play reader for the Greenwich Village Theatre, New York City. First published story, “The Chosen People,” Lippincott’s Magazine, September, 1906. Books: “History of Covington,” 1903; “Poems for Pale People,” 1906; “The Night Riders,” 1912; “The Doughboys’ Book,” 1919. Lives in New York City.

Out o’ Luck.

RHODES, HARRISON (GARFIELD). Born at Cleveland, Ohio, June 2, 1871. Educated at public schools, Cleveland, Adelbert College of Western Reserve University, and Harvard University. Chief interests, the war, travel, human society, and writing. First published story, “The Impertinence of Charles Edward,” McClure’s Magazine, January, 1903. Books: “The Lady and the Ladder,” 1906; “Charles Edward,” 1907; “The Flight to Eden,” 1907; “Guide Book to Florida,” 1912; “In Vacation America,” 1915. Lives in New York City.

*Extra Men.

RIVERS, STUART.

Leading Lady of the Discards.

RUSSELL, JOHN. Born at Davenport, Ia., April 22, 1885. Son of Charles Edward Russell, publicist. Educated in Brooklyn, Chicago, and Northwestern University. Left college to make a tour of the world. Spent some time in the South Seas. Reporter and special writer New York Herald, 1907. Special correspondent to Panama and Peru, 1908. Staff interviewer, teacher, and fiction writer, New York Herald Sunday Magazine, 1908 to 1911. Free lance magazine contributor under seven pseudonyms until 1916. On volunteer mission for U. S. Public Information, England and Ireland, 1918. First published story, “First Assistant to the Substitute,” Circle Magazine, July, 1907. Chief interests, fiction and travel. Married Grace Nye Bolster of Chicago; daughter, Lydia. No acknowledged books.

Adversary.

(3) SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS. (MRS. BASIL DE SÉLINCOURT). Born at Englewood, N. J., March 28, 1873. Educated by governess at home. Left America when nine years of age, and has since lived abroad, chiefly in Paris and London. Has studied painting and exhibited at Paris. Married, 1908. Books: “The Dull Miss Archinard,” 1898; “The Confounding of Camelia,” 1899; “The Rescue,” 1902; “Paths of Judgment,” 1904; “The Shadow of Life,” 1906; “A Fountain Sealed,” 1907; “Amabel Channice,” 1908; “Franklin Winslow Kane,” 1910; “Tante,” 1911; “The Nest,” 1912; “The Encounter,” 1914. Lives near Oxford, England.

*Daffodils.

(1234) SINGMASTER, ELSIE. (for biography, see 1917).

*Release.

(234) SMITH, GORDON ARTHUR. (for biography, see 1917).

*Return.

(34) SPRINGER, FLETA CAMPBELL. (for biography, see 1917).

*Solitaire.

(234) STEELE, WILBUR DANIEL. (for biography, see 1917).

Always Summer.

*Dark Hour.

Eternal Youth.

Man’s a Fool.

Perfect Face.

*Taste of the Old Boy.

*Wages of Sin.

White Man.

STREET, JULIAN. Born in Chicago, April 12, 1879. Educated in Chicago public schools and Ridley College, St. Catharines, Ontario, Can. His first writing was done when he helped to revive the school paper there. At nineteen became a reporter on New York Mail and Express. “Became dramatic editor of that paper at twenty-one—just about the kind of dramatic editor you might expect a twenty-one-year old to be.” Then in the advertising business for awhile and abroad for a year. First published story, “My Enemy—the Motor,” McClure’s Magazine, July, 1906. “I was fortunate in having such friends as Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson, with whom I went abroad, and who encouraged my early efforts to write. The greatest honor I have ever had in my work was an invitation from Booth Tarkington to collaborate with him upon a play, ‘The Country Cousin,’ which is still running. I work slowly and laboriously, and my production is small, because, though I love writing, it is very difficult for me. I dislike exercise but am fond of poker, which I play badly. My chief interests, aside from my wife and two children, are in what Mark Twain called ‘the damned human race,’ and in Havana cigars.” Books: “My Enemy—the Motor,” 1908; “The Need of Change,” 1909; “Paris à la Carte,” 1911; “Ship-Bored,” 1911; “The Goldfish,” 1912; “Welcome to our City,” 1913; “Abroad at Home,” 1914; “The Most Interesting American,” 1915; “American Adventures,” 1917. Lives in New York City.

*Bird of Serbia.

(3) TARKINGTON, BOOTH. Born in Indianapolis, July 29, 1869. Educated at Exeter Academy, Purdue University, and Princeton University. Member of National Institute of Arts and Letters. Books: “The Gentleman from Indiana,” 1899; “Monsieur Beaucaire,” 1900; “The Two Vanrevels,” 1902; “Cherry,” 1903; “In the Arena,” 1905; “The Conquest of Canaan,” 1905; “The Beautiful Lady,” 1905; “His Own People,” 1907; “The Guest of Quesnay,” 1908; “Beasley’s Christmas Party,” 1909; “Beauty and the Jacobin,” 1911; “The Flirt,” 1913; “Penrod,” 1914; “The Turmoil,” 1915; “Penrod and Sam,” 1916; “Seventeen,” 1916; “The Magnificent Ambersons,” 1918. Plays: “Monsieur Beaucaire” (with E. G. Sutherland), 1901; “The Man from Home” (with Harry Leon Wilson), 1906; “Cameo Kirby,” 1907; “Your Humble Servant,” 1908; “Springtime,” 1908; “Getting a Polish,” 1909; “The Country Cousin” (with Julian Street), 1917. Lives in Indianapolis.

*Three Zoölogical Wishes.

TOLMAN, ALBERT W. Born at Rockport, Me., Nov. 29, 1866. Brought up in Portland, Me. Educated in Portland public and high schools, graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard University. Tutor in Greek and rhetoric, Bowdoin College, 1889 to 1890. Instructor in elocution and rhetoric, 1890 to 1893. Elected Assistant Professor of English, 1893, but resigned on account of poor health. Practised law, 1898 to 1913, at the same time writing adventure stories, principally for the Youth’s Companion. For last few years has devoted himself almost wholly to writing. First published story probably “On the Monument,” Golden Days, about 1886. Book, “Jim Spurling, Fisherman,” 1918. Lives in Portland, Me.

*Five Rungs Gone.

VENABLE, EDWARD C.

“Ali Babette.”

*At Isham’s.

(34) VORSE, MARY HEATON (for biography, see 1917).

*De Vilmarte’s Luck.

*Huntington’s Credit.

River Road.

WILLIAMS, BEN AMES. Born in Macon, Miss., March 7, 1889. Brought up in Jackson, Ohio. Educated at West Newton, Mass., and Cardiff, Wales. Graduated from Dartmouth College, 1910. Newspaper man in Jackson, Ohio, Oklahoma City, and Boston until 1916, now devotes himself entirely to fiction. “I married a Wellesley girl, who insists that she and our two boys are properly my chief interest. Fiction writing comes next; and after that tennis, golf, fishing, swimming, gunning, and the general run of outdoor stuff, with chess for rainy-day wear. My first published story—my eighty-fourth in the order of writing—was ‘The Wings of Lias,’ Smith’s Magazine, July, 1915. Like a good many others, I owe a debt to Robert H. Davis of Munsey’s for the encouragement that kept me going.” Lives in Newton Centre, Mass.

Right Whale’s Flukes.

WILSON, MARGARET. See “Elderly Spinster.”

WINSLOW, THYRA SAMTER. Born in Fort Smith, Ark., 1889. Ancestors on both sides included writers. Attended public and private schools, Cincinnati Art Academy, and University of Missouri. Feature writer on the Fort Smith Southwest American and the Chicago Tribune. Experimental work included principalship of an Oklahoma school and theatrical experience from the chorus to ingénue. In 1912 married John Seymour Winslow, son of Chief Justice John Bradley Winslow of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Interests: all printed matter, people, the theatre, interior decoration, and psychology. First story, “Little Emma,” The Smart Set, December, 1915. Her subsequent stories are appearing mainly in the same publication. Lives in New York City.

Eva Duveen.

WOOD, FRANCES GILCHRIST. Born half a century ago, near the small prairie town of Carthage, Ill. Graduate of Carthage College, and has done much postgraduate work, credit due to student ancestry. In earlier years worked as reporter and editor on western newspapers, city and small town, and in railway administration with her father, a combination that carried her well over the States and Mexico. Present interests centre, by turn, in the game of writing; children, including her own; community festivals; gardening and all out of doors; as well as a passion for pursuing the historic ghost through haunt of house and highway. First published story, “The White Battalion,” The Bookman, May, 1918. Books: “The Children’s Pageant,” 1913; “Pageant of Ridgewood,” 1915; “Cartoons of Dress,” 1917. Lives in New York City.

As Between Mothers.

*White Battalion.

WOOD, JOHN SEYMOUR. Born at Utica, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1853. Graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School. Married, 1880. Has practised law in New York City since 1876. Books: “Gramercy Park,” 1892; “A Daughter of Venice,” 1892; “College Days,” 1895; “A Coign of Vantage,” 1896; “Yale Yarns,” 1897. Editor of Bachelor of Arts, 1896 to 1898. Lives in New York City.

*In the House of Morphy.

THE ROLL OF HONOR OF FOREIGN SHORT STORIES IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES

JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918

Note. Stories of special excellence are indicated by an asterisk. The index figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 prefixed to the name of the author indicate that his work has been included in the Rolls of Honor for 1914, 1915, 1916, and 1917 respectively. The list excludes reprints.

I. English and Irish Authors

(234) Aumonier, Stacy. *Bitter End.

*Source of Irritation.

(23) Blackwood, Algernon. *S. O. S.

(2) Colum, Padraic. *Sea Maiden Who Became a Sea-Swan.

(134) “Conrad, Joseph.” *Commanding Officer.

Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-. See Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas.

(4) Dudeney, Mrs. Henry. “Willow Walk.”

Friedlaender, V. H. Last Day.

Miracle.

(1234) Galsworthy, John. “Cafard!”

*Gray Angel.

*Indian Summer of a Forsyte.

Hinkson, Katharine Tynan. Boys of the House.

(4) Mordaunt, Elinor. *High Seas.

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas. Old Æson.

Stephens, James. Crêpe de Chine.

Darling.

*Desire.

Sawdust.

School-fellows.

Wolf.

Tynan, Katharine. See Hinkson, Katharine Tynan.

Watson, E. L. Grant. *Cobwebs and Starshine.

*Man and Brute.

Windeler, B. *Elimus.

II. Translations

Alaihem, Sholom. (Yiddish.) *Great Prize.

Anonymous. *Bistoquet’s Triumph. (French.)

Oratorio. (French.)

Becquer, Gustav A. (Spanish.) *Our Lady’s Bracelet.

Bertheroy, Jean. (French.) Cathedral.

(4) Boutet, Frédéric. (French.) Rift.

(34) Chekhov, Anton. (Russian.) *Overspiced.

*Scandal Monger.

*Vengeance.

*Who Was She?

*Work of Art

Crussol, M. (French.) Love in War Time.

Daudet, Alphonse. (French.) *Last Lesson.

Efimovich, L. (Russian.) *Early Spring.

(3) “Gorki, Maxim.” (Russian.) *Makar Chudra.

*Man Who Could Not Die.

Jaloux, Edmond. (French.) *Vagabond.

Mauclair, Camille. (French.) Inner Man.

Stronny, Vladimir. (Russian.) *Father and Son.

Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. (French.) *Heroism of Doctor Halidonhill.

THE BEST BOOKS OF SHORT STORIES OF 1918: A CRITICAL SUMMARY

The Ten Best American Books.

Bierce. Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright.

Bierce. In the Midst of Life. Boni & Liveright.

Brown. The Flying Teuton. Macmillan.

Burt. John O’May. Scribner.

Hergesheimer. Gold and Iron. Knopf.

Hughes. Long Ever Ago. Harper.

Hurst. Gaslight Sonatas. Harper.

Steele. Land’s End. Harper.

Wolcott. A Gray Dream. Yale.

Wormser. The Scarecrow. Dutton.

The Ten Best English Books.

Blackwood. The Empty House. Dutton.

Blackwood. John Silence. Dutton.

Blackwood. The Listener. Dutton.

Blackwood. The Lost Valley. Dutton.

Buchan. The Watcher by the Threshold. Doran.

Galsworthy. Five Tales. Scribner.

Harker. Children of the Dear Cotswolds. Scribner.

Jacks. The Country Air. Holt.

Phillpotts. Chronicles of Saint Tid. Macmillan.

Sélincourt. Nine Tales. Dodd, Mead.

The Ten Best Translations.

Andreyev. The Seven That Were Hanged. Boni & Liveright.

Barbusse. We Others. Dutton.

Chekhov. The Wife. Macmillan.

Chekhov. The Witch. Macmillan.

Dantchenko. Peasant Tales of Russia. McBride.

Dostoevsky. White Nights. Macmillan.

Gogol. Taras Bulba. Dutton.

Gorky. Creatures That Once Were Men. Boni & Liveright.

Gorky. Stories of the Steppe. Stratford.

Tagore. Mashi. Macmillan. Below follows a record of eighty-seven distinctive volumes published during 1918, before November first.

I. American Authors

Her Country, by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (Charles Scribner’s Sons). In this short story by Mrs. Andrews there is a fine emotional quality, and the spiritual values, though nowhere overstressed, will remind the reader of “The Perfect Tribute,” which still remains Mrs. Andrews’ best story. Written to assist the last Liberty Bond campaign, its significant interest is independent of its timeliness.

In the Midst of Life and Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce (Boni & Liveright). To an Englishman, the lack of familiarity we show with Ambrose Bierce’s stories is a mystery. If he were asked to mention our foremost short story writers, he would think of Poe, Hawthorne, Harte, O. Henry, and Bierce. Yet the name of Ambrose Bierce is almost unknown in this country. His publishers are to be congratulated on the critical acumen that prompted them to reissue Bierce’s stories in a new popular edition. No writer, with the possible exceptions of Stephen Crane and Henri Barbusse, has written of war with more passionate vividness. Such stories as “The Horseman in the Sky,” “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” and “Chickamauga” are among the best stories ever written by an American, and in the field of the macabre Bierce at his best is very nearly the equal of Poe. I suppose that “In the Midst of Life” is the better volume, but “Can Such Things Be?” almost rivals it in interest.

Helen of Troy, and Rose, by Phyllis Bottome (The Century Company). These two novelettes are studies in national and temperamental contrasts. Their deft characterization, subtle humor, and sense of place entitle them to a place beside the best novels of Ethel Sidgwick. They reveal a disciplined sense of poetry and a tolerance of outlook which spring from an older background than most American work.

The Flying Teuton and Other Stories, by Alice Brown (The Macmillan Company). Last year I had occasion to express my belief that “The Flying Teuton” was the best short story that had been inspired by the war up to that time. It comes to us now in book form with a collection of Miss Brown’s other stories of war and peace, revealing the old qualities of courage, imagination, poetry, and dramatic irony which we have come to associate with the name of Miss Brown. I regard the book as her most satisfying contribution to the short story since “Meadow Sweet.”

John O’May, by Maxwell Struthers Burt (Charles Scribner’s Sons). The wish which I expressed last year that Mr. Burt’s stories should be collected in book form is now gratified by the appearance of this volume. It is one of the few indispensable collections of the year by an American author, and gives Mr. Burt a place among American short story writers beside that of Mrs. Gerould, Wilbur Daniel Steele, H. G. Dwight, and Charles Caldwell Dobie. Few writers have a more thoughtful technique or a more unerring sense of dramatic values.

Home Fires in France, by Dorothy Canfield (Henry Holt & Company). Here is a homely record of the new spirit that the war has developed in the homes of France, and of the human intercourse so rapidly cemented between the French people and ourselves. There is a quiet glow in these stories which idealizes the sufferings of France, and brings home to us poignantly the present realities of her sufferings. If the volume lacks the conscious art of “Hillsboro People,” its substance has been shaped by a personal experience so intense that the book should live as a memorial long after the incidents which it records have passed.

Rush-Light Stories, by Maud Chapin (Duffield & Company). These poetic studies in place, though reminiscent of Gautier, are freshly told in a style that adequately mirrors the backgrounds of which they treat. I find them to be delicately wrought, with a prismatic beauty of phrasing, which errs slightly on the side of preciosity.

The Thunders of Silence, by Irvin S. Cobb (George H. Doran Company). When this short story appeared in the Saturday Evening Post this year, it was discussed widely as a polemic. It is not literature, but it is journalism at its very best, and has fine story values.

Free and Other Stories, by Theodore Dreiser (Boni & Liveright). This collection of stories is uneven, but the best of it is the best of Mr. Dreiser. In “The Lost Phœbe,” which I reprinted as one of the best short stories of 1917, a new legend was added to American letters which had much of the glamor of leisureliness of Hawthorne. Such a story as “McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers” is a fine imaginative projection into a new world, mirroring ironically our human passions in the warfare of two tribes of ants under the blades of a grass forest. Of the social studies in this volume, all show the exact observation and conscientious accumulation of detail for which Mr. Dreiser is noted, and the absence of selective power in many cases which often weakens his best work.

Battles Royal Down North and Harbor Tales Down North, by Norman Duncan (Fleming H. Revell Company). These two collections contain the last stories which we shall have from the pen of Norman Duncan. Reverting as they do to the Labrador shores of which he is the chief interpreter, they show no flagging in Mr. Duncan’s power. No other writer has portrayed so vividly the wet gray shores of the Labrador, nor interpreted so sympathetically the character of the Labrador “Liveyere.” Such a story as “The Little Nipper o’ Hide-an’-Seek Harbor” has not been surpassed by Mr. Duncan in his earlier books, and as one who knows the Labrador personally, I can testify to the reality and imaginative truth of Mr. Duncan’s epic chronicles.

Tales of Giants from Brazil, by Elsie Spicer Eells (Dodd, Mead & Company). These adaptations from the collections of Romero and others are an excellent introduction to the Portuguese folk lore of Brazil. They are told by Mrs. Eells in a simple style which preserves their folk quality without any attempt to refine upon it.

Cheerful—By Request, by Edna Ferber (Doubleday, Page & Co.). Miss Ferber is at her best in such a story as “The Tough Old Dog.” In this story she has not sentimentalized her substance, but has accepted the sentimental values inherent in the theme and chronicled them faithfully. Such a story as this is the product of regionalism in its best sense. In other stories in this volume Miss Ferber’s characterization is of varying degrees of success. In the best of these stories her characters are individualized; in those which are less successful they remain types. But the volume is an important addition to the year’s books by virtue of three or four stories included in it.

Edgewater People, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (Harper & Brothers). While this volume does not as a whole represent Mrs. Freeman’s art at its best, it contains two fine stories in “The Ring With the Green Stone” and “A Retreat to the Goal,” while “The Old Man of the Field” has much of Mrs. Freeman’s familiar charm. These stories have the unity of New England village life.

Great Ghost Stories, edited by Joseph Lewis French (Dodd, Mead & Company). This collection is fairly representative of the best ghost stories that can be gathered, though one misses “The Canterville Ghost” and “The Apparition of Mrs. Veal,” as well as any representation of Poe, de Maupassant, or Bierce. But it does contain twelve stories which may fairly be regarded as classics in their field, and there is not one of them which is not of absorbing interest.

Mimi, by J. U. Giesy (Harper & Brothers). This novelette is an idyl of the Latin quarter of Paris during the first year of the Great War. Written in the tradition of Murger, it has his qualities and defects. It is slightly overstressed and somewhat carelessly written, but it has the human touch and good characterization. I commend it to the reader for its quiet emotional appeal.

Hindu Fairy Tales, by Florence Griswold (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.). These fairy tales retold for children from the “Jataka” are narrated in a simple style which is unpretentious but effective. The legends upon which they are based are among the oldest of the human race, but they retain much of their freshness in this version.

Uncle Remus Returns, by Joel Chandler Harris (Houghton, Mifflin Co.). This volume falls into two parts. It includes six new folk stories by Uncle Remus as told to the son of the little boy who was the eager listener in the earlier volumes. These stories rank with the best of their predecessors. To these have been added five sketches from newspaper files, which are purely ephemeral.

The Ransom of Red Chief and Other Stories, by O. Henry, as chosen for boys by Franklin K. Mathiews (Doubleday, Page & Co.). It was a happy thought which inspired Mr. Mathiews to make his selection. In it the reader will find many old favorites well balanced by less familiar stories. Mr. Mathiews knew well that no coaxing was necessary to introduce these stories to boys, and has wisely dispensed with any educational apparatus.

Gold and Iron, by Joseph Hergesheimer (Alfred A. Knopf). In these three careful studies in time and place Mr. Hergesheimer has sought to reproduce certain aspects of our American tradition. With a meticulous attention to detail, and a keen eye for salient incident, he has slowly built up three portraits which rank with the best that American fiction has given us in the past few years. The comparison with Mr. Galsworthy is an obvious one, but emphasizes a difference rather than a resemblance. There is a certain asceticism of color and emotion in these novelettes alien to Mr. Galsworthy’s romantic temperament.

Long Ever Ago, by Rupert Hughes (Harper & Brothers). During the past few years I have had frequent occasion to comment upon these admirable studies of Irish American life as they first appeared in the magazines. I regard them as the definitive chronicle of the first Irish American generation in its process of assimilation by New York. But it is more than this, for it is a series of richly humorous little dramas, with an inimitable flavor of their own.

Tales From a Famished Land, by Edward Eyre Hunt (Doubleday, Page & Co.). Mr. Hunt has been a prominent official of the American Relief Commission in Belgium, and these poignant stories, continuing as they do the record of Mr. Hunt’s earlier book, “War Bread,” are largely based on actual happenings. But the author has looked upon events with the imaginative eye of a born story writer, and it is hard to forget such finely wrought pictures as “Ghosts” and “Saint Dympna’s Miracle.”

Gaslight Sonatas, by Fannie Hurst (Harper & Brothers). I have expressed my opinion so frequently as to the permanent human values of Miss Hurst’s work that I can only remark here that “Gaslight Sonatas” is one of the very few permanent short story books. Of the seven stories in the volume two have been previously published in volumes of this annual.

Abraham’s Bosom, by Basil King (Harper & Brothers). This short story, now republished in book form from the Saturday Evening Post, is an imaginative rendering of spiritual experience independent of sensory phenomena. Its effectiveness is due to its direct sense of reality and incisive characterization.

Modern Short Stories: A Book for High Schools, Edited with Introduction and Notes by Frederick Houk Law (Century Company). This collection of twenty-two stories drawn entirely from contemporary work is a most persuasive introduction of the short story to young readers. The selection is catholic, and should make the student familiar with many types of plot, characterization and style. The selection ranges from Lafcadio Hearn to Tolstoy, and from Richard Harding Davis to Fiona Macleod. Such notable stories of the past year or two as Phyllis Bottome’s “Brother Leo” and Stacy Aumonier’s “A Source of Irritation” afford a refreshing change from the conventional routine. Mr. Law has succeeded almost admirably in coating the educational pill.

The Land Where the Sunsets Go, by Orville H. Leonard (Sherman, French & Company). This volume was published in 1917 somewhat obscurely, but it has certain remarkable qualities which would make me sorry to neglect it. These sketches of the American desert are divided somewhat evenly between verse and prose. The verse is very bad, and the prose is very good. While the prose sketches are not short stories in the strict sense of the word, they contain much fine characterization and a pictorial value which place them easily first among all imaginative records of the American desert.

The Red One, by Jack London (The Macmillan Company). These four short stories include the best of the work upon which Mr. London was engaged at the time of his death. “Like Argus of the Ancient Times” is a true saga full of the open spaces and the zest of youth lingering on into old age. “The Hussy” also takes its place among the best of Mr. London’s later stories. While the other stories are distinctive I cannot report upon them so favorably.

Canadian Wonder Tales, by Cyrus Macmillan (John Lane Company). These stories are drawn from all parts of Canada and include both Indian and French Canadian legends. While they lack the naïve reality of the folk storyteller’s method, the selection is excellent, and should prove a revelation to the American reader of the rich, though neglected, treasures which lie at our back door. Until Mr. C. M. Barbeau of Ottawa renders his invaluable collections accessible in more popular form, this collection will be practically the only introduction of these treasures to the general reader.

Famous Ghost Stories, edited by J. Walker McSpadden (The Thomas Y. Crowell Company). This selection follows more conventional lines than that of Mr. French, which I spoke of above, but it contains Defoe’s “True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal,” which is perhaps the best ghost story ever written, and which has the advantage of relative unfamiliarity. The other thirteen stories are by Sir Walter Scott, Mrs. Gaskell, Bulwer-Lytton, H. B. Marryat, Fitz-James O’Brien, Hawthorne, Irving, Poe, Kipling, and Dickens. The publisher should be congratulated on the best piece of bookmaking of the year.

E. K. Means (G. P. Putnam’s Sons). This book is so good that it needs no title, but raises the question as to what its successor will be called. It is a series of negro farces in narrative form chronicling the joys and tribulations of Vinegar Atts, Figger Bush, Pap Curtain, Hitch Diamond and other Louisiana negroes. The town of Tickfall will have its pilgrims some day if this book finds the audience it so richly deserves.

Shandygaff, by Christopher Morley (Doubleday, Page & Co.). Mr. Morley says that this book contains short stories and I will leave to the reader the delightful task of hunting them. Meanwhile I beg the question and step aside after introducing the reader to good discourse on many subjects by a man who knows how to talk.

Uncle Abner, by Melville Davisson Post (D. Appleton and Company). Few writers have so conscientious a technique as Mr. Post, or such a fine sense of plot. This collection of mystery stories is woven around the personality of Uncle Abner, whose Greek sense of justice is inflexible. All of these stories are masterly examples of the justifiable surprise ending, yet have the logic and dramatic power which we have come to associate with Athenian tragedy. Their effectiveness is largely due to the value of under statement.

Sketches in Duneland, by Earl H. Reed (John Lane Company). These studies of the dune country of Lake Michigan fall into two groups. The second and larger group consists of character studies drawn from the quaint denizens of this district with skilful humor and fine characterization. “Holy Zeke,” “The Love Affair of Happy Cal,” and “The Resurrection of Bill Saunders” are the best stories in this collection, though the whole is very good indeed.

Miss Mink’s Soldier, by Alice Hegan Rice (Century Company). This is a pleasant collection of Mrs. Rice’s better short stories. They will give quiet pleasure to the reader who is not too exacting and show a wide range of human interest.

The Key of the Fields and Boldero, by Henry Milner Rideout (Duffield & Company). These two picaresque novelettes have the magical glamor of fairy tales set in Maxfield Parrish landscapes. They have given me great pleasure by reason of their prismatic quality and their whimsical humor. Mr. Rideout is a conscious stylist who never falls into preciosity, but we must accept his world without qualification if we are to enter properly into the spirit of his work.

The Best College Short Stories, edited by Henry T. Schnittkind (The Stratford Company). Mr. Schnittkind aims to consider annually the best short stories in college magazines, following the same principles which I have adopted in the present series of volumes. The idea is excellent, and the results are surprisingly good. I find in this collection three stories which would have won a place on my annual Roll of Honor: “The Tomte Gubbe” by Alma P. Abrahamson, “The Dead City” by Isidor Schneider, and “Angèle” by John Jones Sharon. The volume includes a large amount of valuable illustrative material, including contributions by many magazine editors and successful writers.

The Scar that Tripled, by William G. Shepherd (Harper & Brothers). In this short story Mr. Shepherd relates with vivid detail the true story of the lad whose meeting with Richard Harding Davis at Salonica suggested to the latter the story of “The Deserter.” To my mind it is a better story than “The Deserter,” and one which will have a quiet life of its own for some time.

Land’s End and Other Stories, by Wilbur Daniel Steele (Harper & Brothers). I consider this the best volume of short stories by an American author published this year. It rightly claims a place in our literature by virtue of Mr. Steele’s sensitive fidelity to the more abiding romance of ordinary life. These stories have a quality of romantic escape which is rare. Behind the complications which his men and women weave for one another looms the eternal but ever-changing pattern of the sea. Few writers show such economy in the use of their material. These stories will last because of their imaginative reality, their warm color, and their finality of artistic execution.

Mr. Squem and Some Male Triangles, by Arthur Russell Taylor (George H. Doran Company). These sketches have an American philosophy with more background than the casual reader may at first realize. They help to interpret much that would bewilder the foreigner, and their unassuming excellence is noteworthy.

Atlantic Narratives (First and second series), edited with an Introduction by Charles Swain Thomas (The Atlantic Monthly Press). These two volumes are a well chosen selection from the rich store of short stories published in the Atlantic Monthly during the past few years. Edited for college and high school use, the second series is specially adapted to younger readers. Speaking generally, I should say that these collections would be of more use in classes in English narrative than in short story classes, but my personal emphasis would be on the special pleasure they will give the general reader, who will find such old favorites as “Little Selves” by Mary Lerner, “In No Strange Land” by Katharine Butler, “The Garden of Memories” by C. A. Mercer, and “Babanchik” by Christina Krysto reprinted in a format which is a delight to the eye. It would be pleasant if these collections should prove to be the forerunners of an annual series of Atlantic stories.

The Rose-Bush of a Thousand Years, by Mabel Wagnalls (Funk & Wagnalls Company). When the first part of this book was published in a magazine during 1916 its story value instantly attracted my attention, and later it became familiar to a wider public through the screen version in which Madame Nazimova took the principal part. The present reprint has been long called for, and would have gained if the crude and inartistic second part had been omitted. It forms no essential part of the story and is clearly an addition dictated by supposed moving picture demands.

A Book of Short Stories, edited by Blanche Colton Williams (D. Appleton and Company). This collection of thirteen stories for high schools is an admirable collection along well-trodden paths, and to it is added a wealth of biographical and critical material, well-ordered and clearly exposed. The general reader will wish to have the volume on his shelves, because it renders accessible for the first time in book form Major Frederick Stuart Greene’s remarkable story, “Molly McGuire, Fourteen.” It is the finest testimony I know of the quality of Dr. Williams’ teaching that a pupil of hers should have produced so notable a story in her classrooms.

A Gray Dream, by Laura Wolcott (Yale University Press). This collection of short stories and reminiscences has all the quiet glow of Indian summer, dreaming over the past with serene conviction and an unconquerable youth of the spirit. The best that New England Puritanism had to reveal is chronicled in these stories, which will remind more than one reader of Emily Dickinson. They have a finished style which achieves its end without undue pomp and circumstance.

The Scarecrow and Other Stories, by G. Ranger Wormser (E. P. Dutton & Company). These stories by Miss Wormser are the most interesting short story discovery of the year. They are subtle studies in unfamiliar regions of the spirit, and their vivid imaginative quality is not unlike that of Algernon Blackwood, though Miss Wormser’s style is somewhat more self-conscious. I believe that this volume heralds a remarkable future.

II. English and Irish Authors

The Tideway, by “John Ayscough” (Benziger Brothers). This collection of stories has much of Henry Harland’s charm, with a more complete mastery of plot. These stories are, many of them, studies in social atmosphere, and if their substance is tenuous, Monsignor Bickerstaffe-Drew has made the most of it.

Johnny Pryde, by J. J. Bell (Fleming H. Revell Company). The dry merriment of this little book is infectious, and makes it a worthy successor to the best of Wee Macgreegor’s earlier adventures.

The Empty House, John Silence, The Listener, and The Lost Valley, by Algernon Blackwood (E. P. Dutton & Company). The present reprint of four of Algernon Blackwood’s earlier collections of short stories gives me the opportunity to call attention to four books for which I care more personally than for the short stories of any other English writer. No contemporary has continued the magic tradition of Keats and Coleridge more successfully than Mr. Blackwood, particularly in “The Listener” and “The Lost Valley.” These two books at least will last longer than any other volume of short stories by an English or American writer published this year.

The Watcher by the Threshold, by John Buchan (George H. Doran Company). Seven or eight years ago a remarkable book of animistic stories by a writer then unknown to me was issued in this country. It at once awakened my enthusiasm for the writer’s work, and I felt that an important new figure had come into view. But “The Moon Endureth” attracted almost no attention and has since been forgotten. Mr. Buchan has published other pleasant books since then but the present collection is the first to recapture something of the same beauty, and in recommending it cordially to the public I earnestly hope that Mr. Buchan’s publishers will find it possible to reissue “The Moon Endureth.”

Nights in London, by Thomas Burke (Henry Holt & Company). Strictly speaking, this is not a volume of short stories, but to those who greatly admired “Limehouse Nights” last year this volume will be found to hold the same fascination of style and to make clearer the human background out of which that book flowered.

Gentlemen at Arms, by “Centurion” (Doubleday, Page & Co.). This volume stands out as a distinguished record from the host of personal experiences which the war has produced. I think it quite the best of the English collection, and a volume which the earlier Kipling might have been proud to sign. There is a poignancy about these studies which is relieved by a well-considered art.

Under the Hermes, by “Richard Dehan” (Dodd, Mead & Company). This book is written solely with the worthy object of entertaining the reader. Five or six years ago, I remember steaming down the Labrador in a decrepit little boat called, rather magnificently, the Stella Maris (and fisherman’s rumor had it that Lady Morris was so honored by the christening), and my only companion for a week in the stuffy cabin was an independent fur trader on his way to his winter post near Nain. His baggage consisted of two crates of jam and two volumes by “Richard Dehan,” and I remember how we banished sleep for several nights and days by reading them to each other, and then beginning all over again. If I knew where Richard White was now, I would send him a copy of “Under the Hermes” to see if the old magic still lingered. It is a collection of good stories imaginatively told.

Tales of War, by Lord Dunsany (Little, Brown & Company). This volume is a series of sketches and essays dealing with Lord Dunsany’s experiences in the Great War, but it contains one of his best short stories,—“The Prayer of the Men of Daleswood,”—and several fine imaginative fables.

Five Tales, by John Galsworthy (Charles Scribner’s Sons). This collection of short stories and novelettes should be set on the book shelf beside “The Dark Flower” as one of Galsworthy’s two most signal contributions to the poetic interpretation of life. It is not too much to say that this volume takes its place in the great English line.

The Quest of the Face, by Stephen Graham (The Macmillan Company). This volume does not represent the author at his best, but the passionate mysticism which Mr. Graham has voiced so nobly in his Russian books still flames through these pages, and there are several sketches in the volume which I should have felt sorry to have missed.

Children of the Dear Cotswolds, by L. Allen Harker (Charles Scribner’s Sons). These quiet pastoral studies, to be fully enjoyed, should be read aloud slowly by the winter fire, and I think the reader will agree with me that they are a very delicate series of studies in place. Mrs. Harker’s readers have a freemasonry of their own to which the password is a love for England and its forgotten Cotswold places.

The Country Air, by L. P. Jacks (Henry Holt & Company). It is my particular pride that I was one of the first to hail the remarkable qualities of Mr. Jacks’ “Wild Shepherds.” I suppose that the present volume will never be widely popular, but to those who enjoy clean human observation, a broad philosophical outlook, and an imaginative transmutation of facts, this volume will be always welcome.

Waysiders, by Seumas O’Kelly (Frederick A. Stokes Company). As Daniel Corkery was the Irish discovery of last year, so Seumas O’Kelly is the most remarkable Irish find of the present season. These studies lack the disciplined art of Mr. Corkery, but they have the same rich imagination, deep folk spirit, and close observation which distinguished “A Munster Twilight.”

Chronicles of Saint Tid, by Eden Phillpotts (The Macmillan Company). Mr. Phillpotts has done well to collect his magazine stories of the past ten years. As a novelist he seems to me inferior to “John Trevena,” who also deals with Dartmoor characters, but the short story with its narrow confines affords him an excellent opportunity to chronicle the whims of human nature which he has observed, and to set down simple chronicles of the countryside which have a romantic atmosphere of their own.

Nine Tales, by Hugh de Sélincourt (Dodd, Mead & Company). To those of us who found in “A Soldier of Life” last year a novel which revealed far more of the spiritual realities of this war than “Mr. Britling Sees it Through,” these stories have been awaited with eagerness. In “The Sacrifice,” Mr. de Sélincourt has surpassed this novel for human revelation of war’s spiritual effect on England, and “Sense of Sin” is as fine a story in a different manner. The whole book is an eloquent plea for spiritual freedom based on physical health and imaginative life. An art so delicate as this is rare.

Some Happenings, by Horace Annesley Vachell (George H. Doran Company). This is an entertaining collection of stories, by an English writer in the American manner, and ranges in breadth of interest from stories of the American West to English mystery stories and French pastorals.

III. Translations

The Seven That Were Hanged, by Leonid Andreyev (Boni & Liveright). These two sombre studies in death rank among the masterpieces of modern Russian literature. “The Seven That Were Hanged” is a study in the human reactions of seven different men between their condemnation and execution. Andreyev is a master of character, relentless in his probing, inevitable in his conclusions. “The Red Laugh,” which is also included in this volume, is an unforgettable study of the horrors of warfare.

Lazarus, by Leonid Andreyev, and The Gentleman from San Francisco, by Ivan Bunin, translated by Abraham Yarmolinsky (The Stratford Company). These stories, published together in one volume, are in vivid contrast. In “Lazarus” Andreyev has written one of his two great prose poems, relating how Lazarus revealed the mystery of the grave. “The Gentleman from San Francisco” has poetry too, but it is essentially an ironic study of the artificial values of commercial prosperity.

We Others: Stories of Fate, Love, and Pity, by Henri Barbusse, translated by Fitzwater Wray (E. P. Dutton & Company). This collection of early stories by Monsieur Barbusse would have been important even if the author was not already known to us by “Under Fire” and “The Inferno.” It includes forty-five short stories of remarkable technique in small compass, sounding almost every note of the human comedy and tragedy with the utmost economy of means and finish of construction. It is perhaps not an accident that the first two stories are the best, but the collection is unusually even and seems sure of reasonable permanence.

Czech Folk Tales, selected and translated by Josef Baudis (The Macmillan Company). This is probably the best volume of fairy stories published this year and should interest students of folk lore and the general reader as well as children. There is a wild poetry in these brief tales, which is well rendered in Dr. Baudis’s translation.

Tales from Boccaccio (The Stratford Company). It was a happy thought of the publishers to select these seven stories at which the most puritan cannot carp, and to present them to us in such an attractive form. An old translation is used whose style faithfully mirrors that of Boccaccio.

The Wife (The Macmillan Company), The Witch (The Macmillan Company), and Nine Humorous Tales (The Stratford Company), by Anton Chekhov. Two new volumes have been added this year to Mrs. Garnett’s admirable edition of Chekhov. It is now universally admitted that Chekhov ranks with Poe and de Maupassant as one of the three supreme masters of the short story. “The Wife” contains at least two of Chekhov’s masterpieces: “A Dreary Story” and “Gooseberries.” With these two stories I should rank “Gusev” and “In the Ravine.” The little book issued by the Stratford Company reprints nine of Chekhov’s less familiar stories, some of which cannot yet be obtained in English elsewhere.

Peasant Tales of Russia, by V. I. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, translated by Claud Field (Robert M. McBride & Company). These four poetic stories by one of the less known Russian masters are tragic studies of human conflict, softened by pity and a deep-rooted religious belief. They are admirably translated in a style which reflects much of the poetry of the original. “The Deserted Mine” is one of the great short stories of the world.

White Nights, and Other Stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett (The Macmillan Company). These seven short stories and novelettes range over a period of more than twenty years in Dostoevsky’s career. “White Nights,” which is one of his earliest works, is a poem of young love and its effect on solitude and spiritual isolation. “A Faint Heart,” which was written seven or eight years afterwards, is a study of the will and morbid melancholy. It anticipates many of the findings of modern psychiatry. “A Little Hero,” written immediately afterwards, is a kind of autobiography, and sheds much light on Dostoevsky’s early life. But “Notes from Underground” is the masterpiece of the book, and is one of the chief clues to Dostoevsky’s own philosophy.

Jewish Fairy Tales, translated by Gerald Friedlander (Bloch Publishing Company). This collection of eight stories, translated from the Talmud, Yalkut, and other sources, has been wisely selected to cultivate the imagination of Jewish children, but should prove of much interest to the general reader who is likely to be unfamiliar with most of these legends.

Taras Bulba, and Other Tales, by Nikolai V. Gogol (E. P. Dutton & Company). “Taras Bulba” and five of Gogol’s best short stories are now added to Everyman’s Library. The title story is the national epic of Little Russia, and has a Homeric quality of spaciousness, dignity, and imagination which places it among the world’s great masterpieces. The other stories show Gogol in many moods, but chiefly as Russia’s greatest humorous writer.

Creatures That Once Were Men (Boni & Liveright) and Stories of the Steppe (The Stratford Company), by “Maxim Gorky.” These two volumes are in sufficient contrast to one another. The former contains five stories of life among the submerged classes of Russia, which are nobly told with simplicity, imaginative power, and sceptical philosophy. “Stories of the Steppe” contains three prose poems full of a wild gypsy poetry.

Men in War, by Andreas Latsko (Boni & Liveright). These six realistic studies of warfare by an Austrian whose book has been suppressed in his own country are a terrific indictment of the militaristic spirit which has brought on the great conflict and continued it relentlessly for four years. It shares with Barbusse’s “Under Fire” the distinction of being one of the two masterpieces written by combatants during the last four years, and the spirit of the two books will be found to be essentially the same.

Tales of Wartime France, by Contemporary French Writers. Translated by William L. McPherson (Dodd, Mead & Company). This anthology of thirty war stories is well selected, and shows that the war has produced many excellent French stories. One and all, they illustrate the spirit of the nation, and show an artistic reticence which contrasts favorably with the work of English and American writers.

French Short Stories, Edited for School Use, by Harry C. Schweikert (Scott, Foresman and Company). This collection of eighteen stories for the most part follows conventional lines, but the choice is excellent and introduces the reader to several unfamiliar stories by Coppée, Bazin, Claretie, and Lemaître. The critical apparatus is competent, and the biographical notes should prove useful.

The Spanish Fairy Book, by Gertrudis Segovia, translated by Elisabeth Vernon Quinn (Frederick A. Stokes Company). These eight fairy stories show much imagination, a pleasant unpretentious style, and a fine sense of form. While written for quite young children, they also possess much folk lore value.

Serbian Fairy Tales, translated by Elodie L. Mijatovich (Robert M. McBride & Co.). I would rank this with Dr. Baudis’s “Czech Folk Tales” as one of the two best books of fairy tales published this year. Like Ispirescu’s collection of Roumanian stories it seems to bear traces of a secret animistic doctrine disclosing the mystery of change, and to have crystallized in literary form through centuries of traditional storytelling.

Mashi, and Other Stories, by Sir Rabindranath Tagore (The Macmillan Company). Of these stories it is difficult to speak without undue enthusiasm. With admirable economy of means, Tagore has succeeded in conveying the utmost subtlety of nostalgic remembrance, and the sensuous beauty of shrouded landscape in which he projects his figures sustains profound emotional revelation without undue tightening of the literary fabric. His literary method is a strange one to us, but it might well be the beginning of a new short story tradition in which an American writer could find inspiration as fresh as the new impulse that the discovery of Japanese prints brought to Whistler and others that followed him.

Paulownia: Seven Stories from Contemporary Japanese Writers, translated by Torao Taketomo (Duffield & Company). These stories reveal a new world to us, as significant in its way as the world of Tagore’s stories. Some of these Japanese writers have been influenced by European models, but their spirit is essentially national, and springs from an imaginative quality which it is hard for us at first to recapture. All the stories have a finished art, and so has Mr. Torao Taketomo’s translation.

What Men Live By, and Other Stories, by Leo Tolstoi, translated by L. and A. Maude (The Stratford Company). This collection includes four familiar stories by Tolstoi chosen for their social doctrine. The format of the book is pleasant, and the choice of stories excellent.

VOLUMES OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED, JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918: AN INDEX

NOTE. An asterisk before a title indicates distinction. This list includes single short stories, collections of short stories, textbooks, and a few continuous narratives based on short stories previously published in magazines.

I. American Authors

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman.

*Her Country. Scribner.

Anonymous.

Thompson. Houghton-Mifflin.

Antin, Mary.

*Lie, The. Atlantic Monthly Press.

Bacheller, Irving A.

Story of a Passion. Roycrofters.

Bacon, Josephine Daskam.

On Our Hill. Scribner.

Bagnold, Enid.

Diary Without Dates. Luce.

Barton, George.

Strange Adventures of Bromley Barnes. Page.

Bell, Robert B. H.

Laughing Bear. Shores.

Bellegarde, Sophie de.

Russian Soldier-Peasant. Young Churchman.

Bierce, Ambrose.

*Can Such Things Be? Boni and Liveright. *In the Midst of Life. Boni and Liveright.

Bottome, Phyllis.

*Helen of Troy, and Rose. Century.

Brown, Alice.

*Flying Teuton. Macmillan.

Buffum, G. Tower.

On Two Frontiers. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard.

Burt, Maxwell Struthers.

*John O’May, and Other Stories. Scribner.

Butler, Ellis Parker.

Philo Gubb. Houghton-Mifflin.

Canfield, Dorothy.

*Home Fires in France. Holt

Chapin, Maud.

Rush-light Stories. Duffield.

Cobb, Irvin S.

*Thunders of Silence. Doran.

Davis, J. Frank.

Almanzar. Holt.

Dodge, Henry Irving.

Skinner’s Big Idea. Harper. Yellow Dog. Harper.

Dougherty, Harry Vincent.

Way of the Transgressor. Roycrofters.

Douglas, A. Donald.

From their Galleries. Four Seas.

Dreiser, Theodore.

*Free, and Other Stories. Boni and Liveright.

Driggs, Laurence la Tourette.

Adventures of Arnold Adair, American Ace. Little, Brown.

Duncan, Norman.

*Battles Royal Down North. Revell. *Harbor Tales Down North. Revell.

Eells, Elsie Spicer.

*Tales of Giants from Brazil. Dodd, Mead.

Ferber, Edna.

*Cheerful—By Request. Doubleday, Page.

Foote, John Taintor.

Lucky Seven. Appleton.

Ford, Sewell.

House of Torchy. Clode. Shorty McCabe Looks ’Em Over. Clode.

Fox, Frances Margaret.

Seven Little Wise Men. Page.

Frazer, Elizabeth.

Old Glory and Verdun. Duffield.

Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.

*Edgewater People. Harper.

French, Joseph Lewis, editor.

*Great Ghost Stories. Dodd, Mead.

Ganoe, William Addleman.

*Ruggs—R. O. T. C. Atlantic Monthly Press.

Gatlin, Dana.

Full Measure of Devotion. Doubleday, Page.

Giesy, J. U.

*Mimi. Harper.

Glass, Montague.

Worrying Won’t Win. Harper.

Goldsberry, Louise Dunham.

Ted. Badger.

Greene, Frances Nimmo.

America First. Scribner.

Griswold, Florence.

*Hindu Fairy Tales. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard.

Hamby, William H.

Way of Success. Laird and Lee.

Hardy, Thomas.

*Two Wessex Tales. Four Seas.

Harris, Joel Chandler.

*Uncle Remus Returns. Houghton-Mifflin.

“Hay, Timothy.”

See Rollins, Montgomery.

Hearn, Lafcadio.

*Japanese Fairy Tales. Boni and Liveright. *Karma. Boni and Liveright.

“Henry, O.” (Sidney Porter.)

*Ransom of Red Chief and Other O. Henry Stories for Boys, As Chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews. Doubleday, Page.

Hergesheimer, Joseph.

*Gold and Iron. Knopf.

Herring, J. L.

Saturday Night Sketches. Badger.

Hughes, Rupert.

*Long Ever Ago. Harper.

Hunt, Edward Eyre.

*Tales from a Famished Land. Doubleday, Page.

Hurst, Fannie.

*Gaslight Sonatas. Harper.

James, Henry.

*Gabrielle de Bergerac. Boni and Liveright.

King, Basil.

*Abraham’s Bosom. Harper.

Law, Frederick Houk, editor.

*Modern Short Stories. Century.

Leonard, Orville H.

*Land Where the Sunsets Go. Sherman, French.

Levinger, Elma Ehrlich.

Jewish Holyday Stories. Bloch. Pub. Co.

London, Jack.

*Red One. Macmillan.

McKenna, “Jawn.”

Stories. Published by the Author.

MacLean, Annie Marion.

“Cheero!” Woman’s Press.

McSpadden, J. W., editor.

*Famous Ghost Stories. Crowell.

Mahon, Shiela.

Irish Joy Stories. Mahon Press.

Marcy, Mary Edna Tobias.

Stories of the Cave People. Kerr.

Masson, Thomas L., editor.

Best Short Stories. Doubleday, Page.

Masters, Edgar Lee.

*Toward the Gulf. Macmillan.

Mayo, Katharine.

Standard Bearers. Houghton-Mifflin.

*Means, E. K.

Putnam.

Merwin, Samuel.

Henry is Twenty. Bobbs-Merrill.

Morley, Christopher.

*Shandygaff. Doubleday, Page.

Morse, Richard.

Fear God in Your Own Village. Holt

Murphy, Marguerite.

Necklace of Jewels. Page.

Neal, Robert W., editor.

To-day’s Short Stories Analyzed. Oxford University Press.

O’Brien, Edward J., editor.

Best Short Stories of 1917. Small, Maynard.

Orcutt, William Dana.

White Road of Mystery. Lane.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

*Gold-Bug and Other Tales. Four Seas.

Porter, Sidney.

See “Henry, O.”

Post, Melville Davisson.

*Uncle Abner—Master of Mysteries. Appleton.

Pratt, A. H.

My Tussle with the Devil. I. M. Y. Co.

Reed, Earl H.

*Sketches in Duneland. Lane.

Reeve, Arthur B.

Panama Plot. Harper. Soul Scar. Harper.

Rice, Alice Hegan.

*Miss Mink’s Soldier. Century.

Richmond, Grace S.

Enlisting Wife. Doubleday, Page.

Rideout, Henry Milner.

*Key of the Fields, and Boldero. Duffield.

Robbins, Leo.

Mary the Merry. Stratford Co.

Roberts, Elizabeth Judson.

Indian Stories of the Southwest. Wagner.

Rollins, Montgomery. (“Timothy Hay.”)

Over Here Stories. Marshall Jones Co.

Rutledge, Archibald Hamilton.

Tom and I On the Old Plantation. Stokes.

Sanborn, Gertrude.

Blithesome Jottings. Four Seas.

Schnittkind, Henry T., editor.

*Best College Short Stories. Stratford Co.

Shepherd, William Gunn.

*Scar That Tripled. Harper.

Skinner, Ada M., and Eleanor L.

Pearl Story Book. Duffield. Turquoise Story Book. Duffield.

Slaughter, Gertrude.

Two Children in Old Paris. Macmillan.

Smith, Charlotte Curtis.

Old Cobblestone House. Rochester, N. Y. Craftsman Press.

Steele, Wilbur Daniel.

*Land’s End and Other Stories. Harper.

Steinberg, Judah.

*Breakfast of the Birds. Jewish Publication Soc. of Am.

Taylor, Arthur Russell.

*Mr. Squem and Some Male Triangles. Doran.

Thomas, Charles Swain, editor.

*Atlantic Narratives, First Series. Atlantic Monthly Co. *Atlantic Narratives, Second Series. Atlantic Monthly Co.

Train, Arthur.

Mortmain. Scribner.

Tweedy, Frank.

Discarded Confidante. Neale.

Van Loan, Charles E.

Fore! Doran.

Wagnalls, Mabel.

*Rose-Bush of a Thousand Years. Funk and Wagnalls.

Wagner, Rob.

Film Folk. Century.

Waldo, Nigel.

Wallflowers. Hannis Jordan Co.

Wharton, Edith.

Marne. Appleton.

White, Stewart Edward.

Simba. Doubleday, Page.

Widdemer, Margaret.

You’re Only Young Once. Holt.

Williams, Blanche Colton, editor.

*Book of Short Stories. Appleton.

Wolcott, Laura.

*Gray Dream. Yale Univ. Press.

Wormser, C. Ranger.

*Scarecrows. Dutton.

II. English and Irish Authors

“Ayscough, John.”

*Tideway. Benziger.

“Bartimeus.”

*Long Trick. Doran.

Bell, John Joy.

*Johnny Pryde. Revell.

Blackwood, Algernon.

*Empty House. Dutton. *John Silence. Dutton. *Listener. Dutton. *Lost Valley. Dutton.

Brebner, Percy James.

Christopher Quarles. Dutton.

*Buchan, John.

*Watcher by the Threshold. Doran.

Burke, Thomas.

*Nights in London. Holt.

Cable, Boyd.

Front Lines. Dutton.

“Centurion.”

See Morgan, Captain J. H.

Copplestone, Bennet.

Lost Naval Papers. Dutton.

“Dehan, Richard.”

*Under the Hermes. Dodd, Mead.

Doyle, A. Conan.

*Danger. Doran.

Dunsany, Lord.

*Book of Wonder. (Modern Library.) Boni and Liveright. *Tales of War. Little, Brown.

Empey, Arthur Guy.

Tales from a Dugout. Century.

Evans, Caradoc.

*Capel Sion. Boni and Liveright. *My Own People. Boni and Liveright.

Galsworthy, John.

*Five Tales. Scribner.

Graham, Stephen.

*Quest of the Face. Macmillan.

Graves, Clotilde.

See “Dehan, Richard.”

“Hanshew, T. W.” (Charlotte May Kingsley.)

Cleek, the Master Detective. Doubleday, Page.

Harker, L. Allen.

*Children of the Dear Cotswolds. Scribner.

Hodgson, William Hope.

Captain Gault. McBride.

Jacks, L. P.

*Country Air. Holt.

Kipling, Rudyard.

*Tales. Four Seas.

Moore, George.

*Story-Teller’s Holiday. Boni and Liveright.

Morgan, Captain J. H. (“Centurion.”)

*Gentlemen at Arms. Doubleday, Page.

Morrison, Arthur.

*Tales of Mean Streets. Goodman.

Noyes, Alfred.

*Walking Shadows. Stokes.

O’Kelly, Seumas.

*Waysiders. Stokes.

Pearse, Padraic.

*Collected Works. Stokes.

Pertwee, Roland.

Transactions of Lord Louis Lewis. Dodd, Mead.

Phillpotts, Eden.

*Chronicles of St. Tid. Macmillan.

Sabatini, Rafael.

*Historical Nights’ Entertainment. Lippincott.

“Sapper.”

Human Touch. Doran.

Sélincourt, Hugh de.

*Nine Tales. Dodd, Mead.

Stockley, Cynthia.

*Blue Aloes. Putnam.

“Trevena, John.”

*By Violence. Four Seas.

Vachel, Horace Annesley.

*Some Happenings. Doran.

Walker, Dugald Stewart.

Dream Boats. Doubleday, Page.

Wilde, Oscar.

*Fairy Tales and Poems in Prose. Boni and Liveright. *House of Pomegranates. Moffat, Yard.

Yeats, W. B., editor.

*Irish Fairy and Folk Tales. (Modern Library.) Boni and Liveright.

“Yeo.”

Soldier Men. Lane.

III. Translations

Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich. (Russian.)

(See also Modern Russian Classics.) *Seven That Were Hanged, and The Red Laugh. (Modern Library.) Boni and Liveright.

Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich, and Bunin, Ivan Alexeivich. (Russian.)

*Lazarus (by Andreieff) and The Gentleman from San Francisco (by Bunin). Stratford Co.

Artzibashev, Michael. (Russian.)

See Modern Russian Classics.

Balzac, Honoré de. (French.)

*Short Stories. (Modern Library.) Boni and Liveright.

Barbusse, Henri. (French.)

*We Others. Dutton.

Baŭdes, Joseph, editor. (Czech.)

*Czech Folk Tales. Macmillan.

Boccaccio de Certaldo, Giovanni. (Italian.)

Tales from Boccaccio. Stratford.

Bosschère, Jean de. (French.)

*Folk Tales of Flanders. Dodd, Mead.

Bunin, Ivan Alexeivich. (Russian.)

See Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich, and Bunin, Ivan Alexeivich.

Chekhov, Anton. (Russian.)

(See also Modern Russian Classics.) *Nine Humorous Tales. Stratford. *Wife. Macmillan. *Witch. Macmillan.

Dantchenko, V. I. Nemirovitch-. (Russian.)

*Peasant Tales of Russia. McBride.

Dostoevskii, Fyodor Mikhailovich. (Russian.)

*White Nights. Macmillan.

Friedlander, Gerald, translator. (Yiddish.)

Jewish Fairy Stories. Bloch.

Gogol, Nikolai Vassilyevitch. (Russian.)

*Taras Bulba. Dutton.

Goldberg, Isaac, editor. (Portuguese.)

*Brazilian Tales. Four Seas.

Gorky, Maxim. (Russian.)

(See also Modern Russian Classics.) *Creatures That Once Were Men. Boni and Liveright. *Stories of the Steppe. Stratford.

Latzko, Andreas. (German.)

*Men in War. Boni and Liveright.

McPherson, William, editor. (French.)

*Tales of Wartime France. Dodd, Mead.

Maupassant, Guy de. (French.)

*Mademoiselle Fifi. Four Seas. *Selected Short Stories. Current Literature Pub. Co.

Mendés, Catulle. (French.)

*Fairy Spinning Wheel. Four Seas.

Mijatovich, Elodie L., translator. (Serbian.)

*Serbian Fairy Tales. McBride.

*Modern Russian Classics. (Russian.) (Stories by Andreyev, Sologub, Gorky, Chekhov, and Artzibashev.)

Four Seas.

Nemirovitch-dantchenko, V. I. (Russian.)

See Dantchenko, V. I. Nemirovitch-.

Schweikert, Harry C., editor. (French.)

*French Short Stories. Scott, Foresman.

Segovia, Gertrudis. (Spanish.)

*Spanish Fairy Book. Stokes.

“Sologub, Feodor.” (Feodor Kuzmitch Teternikov.) (Russian.)

See Modern Russian Classics.

Tagore, Sir Rabindranath. (Bengali.)

*Mashi, and Other Stories. Macmillan.

Taketomo, Torao, editor. (Japanese.)

*Paulownia. Duffield.

Tchekhov, Anton. (Russian.)

See Chekhov, Anton.

Tolstoy, Lyof. (Russian.)

*Death of Ivan Ilyitch, and Other Stories. Boni and Liveright. *What Men Live By. Stratford.

Underwood, Edna Worthley.

*Famous Stories from Foreign Countries. Four Seas.

THE BEST SIXTY AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918: A CRITICAL SUMMARY

The sixty short stories published in the American magazines between January and October, 1918, which I shall discuss in this article are chosen from a larger group of about one hundred and twenty stories, whose literary excellence justifies me in including them in my annual “Roll of Honor.” The stories which are included in this Roll of Honor have been chosen from the stories published in seventy-four American periodicals during the first ten months of 1918. In selecting them I have sought to accept the author’s point of view and manner of treatment, and to measure simply his degree of success in accomplishing what he set out to achieve. I have permitted no personal preference or prejudice to influence my mind consciously for or against a story. But I must confess that it has been difficult to eliminate personal admiration completely in the further winnowing which has resulted in this selection of sixty stories. Below are set forth the particular qualities which have seemed to me to justify in each case the inclusion of a story in this list.

1. A Simple Act of Piety, by Achmed Abdullah (The All-Story Weekly). To those who enjoyed last year Thomas Burke’s “Limehouse Nights,” the series of Pell Street stories which Captain Abdullah is publishing in the Century Magazine, Collier’s Weekly, and the All-Story Weekly will be welcome. To a vivid sense of color and an economy of dramatic situation, “A Simple Act of Piety,” which is the best of these stories, adds a fine appreciation of the Oriental point of view. The characterization is almost subjective it is so real, and the story is a fine crystallization of the poetry inherent in New York Chinatown life.

2. The Man of Ideas, by Sherwood Anderson (Little Review), points the way to a new American realism. Those who have read Mr. Anderson’s other Winesburg stories in the Seven Arts and the Little Review will remember that he has set himself the task of portraying the spiritual values of a small Ohio community without sentimentality. These stories suggest the Spoon River Anthology, and indeed the tradition inaugurated by Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson, and other realists of the new Chicago School seems likely to carry on the vision of Walt Whitman to new goals of achievement.

3. Cruelties (Harper’s Magazine) and 4. “Goddess Size” (Harper’s Magazine), by Edwina Stanton Babcock. When Miss Babcock published “The Excursion” last year in the Pictorial Review, I expressed my belief that it was one of the best five American short stories of the year. I regard these two stories as marking a significant advance in Miss Babcock’s art. Her characterization of these Nantucket folks has a subtle humor and poetry linked to a faithful realism. Miss Babcock continues to prove herself a leader in short-story regionalism. “Cruelties” is very quietly done and no point is over-stressed. In fact I find a greater reticence in these stories than in Miss Babcock’s earlier work, and this is all to the good.

5. The Bell-Tower of P’An-Ku, by “John Brangwyn” (Century Magazine). This story by an American novelist, whose name is not to be revealed, comes with a definite message to Americans from China. It is an allegory quietly setting forth the essence of the imaginative attitude toward life. Like a shifting tapestry, pictures weave to and fro, and the way is opened to us to see the vision that the unknown Chinese master saw.

6. Buster, by Katharine Holland Brown (Scribner’s Magazine). Here in clear swift portraiture Miss Brown has caught the spirit of America, youthful and eager, living dangerously and happily, and prepared to face danger, and, if necessary, seek it. “Buster” is a study of the typical young American who finds himself at last as an aviator in France. No story could better interpret our spirit to the English and French imagination.

7. The Sorry Tale of Hennery K. Lunk, by Ellis Parker Butler (Harper’s Magazine). This tale of a mournful mariner ashore on the banks of the Mississippi would have delighted Mark Twain. I hope Mr. Butler will forgive me if I state that it contains more poetry than prose. But after all, mournful mariners come and go, while their stories go on forever.

8. The Black Pearl, by Katharine Butler (Atlantic Monthly). This story, redolent of the East, is an admirable study in atmosphere. It has all the nostalgia of a half-forgotten dream, and yet it is so confidently set forth that we may enter its background without difficulty. Style is not a common quality, I regret to say, in American short stories, but the picture portrayed in “The Black Pearl” is well nigh flawless.

9. Some Ladies and Jurgen, by James Branch Cabell (Smart Set), is a wilful apologue of poets and their wives which will delight the thoughtful while disappointing the serious. It is really a prose poem without any moral whatever, unless perhaps the moral Miss Guiney once pointed out when she said that tall talk always reminded her of the Himalayas. I commend the fable to all would-be poets.

10. The Gallowsmith, by Irvin S. Cobb (All-Story Weekly). This story, which marks a great departure from Mr. Cobb’s usual vein, is one of the most grim stories an American magazine has ever published, but it is a masterly portrait of a professional hangman which the reader cannot easily forget. With vivid completeness of detail, and characterization which is admirably suggestive, Mr. Cobb manages the situation in such a way that its conclusion is inevitable, yet unexpected.

11. The Open Window, by Charles Caldwell Dobie (Harper’s Magazine), is a sequel to “Laughter,” which I published last year as one of the best short stories of 1917. Unlike most sequels, it is perhaps better than its predecessor, and the mastery of his art which Mr. Dobie shows only serves to confirm my prediction of two years ago, that in Mr. Dobie America would find before long one of its four or five best short-story writers. An adventurous publisher, anxious to issue the best that is being written in American fiction, cannot afford to neglect Mr. Dobie.

12. The Emerald of Tamerlane, by H. G. Dwight and John Taylor (Century Magazine). Every discriminating reader knows H. G. Dwight’s book of short stories entitled “Stamboul Nights,” and admires its quality of romantic mystery and poetic description. “The Emerald of Tamerlane” admirably sustains Mr. Dwight’s reputation for vivid realization of Persian life.

13. Blind Vision, by Mary Mitchell Freedley (Century Magazine). This story, by S. Weir Mitchell’s granddaughter, marks not only Mrs. Freedley’s first appearance in print, but the arrival of a remarkable new talent. It is a study of an American aviator and a spiritual problem that he had to decide, and is set down with exceptional artistic economy.

14. The Irish of It, by Cornelia Throop Geer (Atlantic Monthly). This little study, which is hardly more than a dialogue, is inimitable in its deft humorous characterization. It is good news to be able to report that Miss Geer is planning a volume of stories about these Irish boys and girls whose poetry of thought and action is so coaxing.

15. Imagination, by Gordon Hall Gerould (Scribner’s Magazine). Captain Gerould has taken his subject quietly and handled it with a thoughtful sense of its possibilities. This study of a successful writer of best sellers, with his egregious solemnity and lack of imagination, is delightfully rendered. The subtlety of the author’s psychology will not blind the reader to its essential truth.

16. Marchpane, by Katharine Fullerton Gerould (Harper’s Magazine). Mrs. Gerould has only published one short story this year, but fortunately it ranks among her best. It is written with all her usual close observation of abnormal psychological situations. The art of few stories is concealed so successfully, and the story is one of which Henry James would have been proud.

17. In Maulmain Fever-Ward, by George Gilbert. This story, which appeared in a Chicago magazine, is the first of an unusual series of stories dealing with East Indian life. It is full of a wild poetry of speech and action, set against a background of almost oppressive natural beauty. I think that the story would have gained by a little more reticence, but the groundwork is firm and the detail admirably rendered.

18. “Beloved Husband” (Harper’s Magazine) and 19. “Poor Ed” (The Liberator), by Susan Glaspell. Susan Glaspell has already won a high reputation in three equally difficult fields, those of the novel, the drama, and the short story. Considering her as a short-story writer only, we may say that these two stories reflect the best that she has done, with the possible exception of the story entitled “A Jury of Her Peers,” which I reprinted in “The Best Short Stories of 1917.” Both are studies in suppressed ambition, set forth with a gentle humor which does not fail by virtue of overstress. Susan Glaspell is at her best in “Poor Ed,” a study in the triumph of failure.

20. Sinjinn Surviving, by Armistead C. Gordon (Harper’s Magazine). This story is one more addition to Mr. Gordon’s studies of Virginia negro plantation life. It introduces us once more to Ommirandy and Uncle Jonas, and is a quiet idyl of the life that survived in Virginia after the fall of the Confederacy.

21. Even So, by Charles Boardman Hawes (The Bellman). The art of Mr. Hawes has developed so quietly during the past few years that it has not attracted the attention it richly deserves. This study of life and death many years ago in the Southern Seas recaptures much of the magic of the old sailing-ship days when the Helen of Troy and other American clippers came bravely into port. The story has a fine legendary quality.

22. Decay, by Ben Hecht (Little Review). When Mr. Hecht published “Life” in the Little Review some few years ago I predicted that the future would reveal the fulfilment of his remarkable promise, although I was not quite sure whether Mr. Hecht would find himself most fully in the short story or in the novel. During these years his output has been small but distinguished, and the present study of Chicago life shows a marked advance in technique. Nevertheless I now think that the novel is Mr. Hecht’s natural vehicle, and that when his first novel appears it will create a profound literary impression.

23. Their War, by Hetty Hemenway (Atlantic Monthly). When Miss Hemenway published “Four Days” in the Atlantic Monthly last year, it created more discussion than any other war story of the year. Her new story, which is in as quiet a key, represents an advance in her art, and the two stories taken together represent one of the few important contributions America has made to the imaginative literature of the war. The war has taught us that youth is old enough, under the stress of events, to speak for itself, and there is a brave frankness about Mrs. Richard’s exposition of this truth which brings it home to all.